Wilton was settled in 1651 as part of Norwalk, and the first dwelling house there was built in 1706. The village of Wilton received parish privileges from the General Assembly on May 12, 1726, and the Town of Wilton was incorporated as a separate body politic on May 2, 1802. During the American Revolution, 223 officers and soldiers who lived in Wilton fought against the British, and in April 1777 enemy troops marched through Wilton along the Ridgefield Road after the Battle of Ridgefield, ransacking a number of homes and demanding supplies and provisions. The railroad came up the Norwalk River Valley in 1852, bringing summer residents to what had been essentially an agricultural community, and Wilton's population increased greatly in the years after the Second World War. Historic sites in Wilton include Lambert Corner at Danbury and Westport Roads, with the David Lambert House circa 1724 on its original site and other landmark buildings saved from demolition, moved, restored, and maintained by the Wilton Historical Society, including a saltbox or lean-to style dwelling circa 1829, an 1834 schoolhouse, the first railroad station in Wilton circa 1852, and a post office circa 1889; the area of the Congregational Church on Ridgefield Road, where Wilton's third meetinghouse stood circa 1790 and its first town hall circa 1829; the Sloan-Raymond-Fitch House at 249 Danbury Road, an early dwelling circa 1731 and headquarters of the Wilton Historical Society; the Hurlbutt Street Schoolhouse, built circa 1834 and used continuously as a school until 1935; and the Cannondale Schoolhouse at Cannon Crossing, constructed circa 1873.